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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06
A Fighting Sparrow.

Some boys in Richmond, Va, had
fun with sparrow the other day.
Upon pigeon box in the yard was
affixed g. piece of looking glass. The
male sparrow would get az mad as
possible at the reflection of his image
IN the mirror, and fight it furiously by
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06

QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, wrote
novel, and under an assumed name
sent it to a Roman publisher. who 70
jected it. She did not care to have
the merits OF the work lost sight Of
because OF royalty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06
SHOT THE MESSENGER.

a West Shore Train Boarded by Masked
Desperate Who Deliberately Shoots
Down the Express Messenger for Re-
fusing to Throw Up His Hands-The
Safe Rifled of its Money Packages-A
Small Haul.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06
EADS' MILLIONS DIVIDED.

The Profits ON the Government Subsidy
for Maintaining the Jetty Channel a.
Now Orleans to Go to His Wife
and Five Daughters-Three Sons-in-
Law and the Wife of Former Part
ner Substantially Remembered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06

THE wearing of the green-a game of
billiards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11

ton last night Among them was Mr. John b.
Lawson the veteran delegate of New York
They were talking about the sizes of the differ
enr States and Territories, when Mr.. Lawson
surprised everyone by saying with every appear
ance of seriousness that the town of Sitka
Alaska WAS the center of the territorial belong
ings of the United States, north, south, east
and west, within ten fifteen miles. The other
mem bers of the group looked at Mr.. Lawson as
il doubling his sanity. IF you do not believe
me. gentlemen" said that worthy. with beamine
complacency, lust look at this map aud at
these figures" and he produced a map of the
Western hemisphere. From this you will see
that Alaska runs up to the Arctic ocean, and the
distan from Sitka TO the Arctic almost ex-
actly the same the distance from Sitka to the
Mexican border. From Stka to the coast of
Maine is more than from Sitka to the
furthest of the Aleutian islands, which are our
property. You did not know what big place
Alaska was. did your and still smiling COM
placently, the old gentleman returned the map
IN hia nockat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
FATAL COAL-MINE ACCIDENT.
Two Men Instantly Killed and Two Badly
Mangled and Fatally Crushed.

WILKEsBARRE, Dec. 10.-A report has just
reached here of a frightfui accident at Luzerne-
borough. four miles from here. The carriage
at Waddelrs shaft, used for hosting coal, was
about to be lowered into the pit 300 feet deep.
Upon it were ten miners When within 100
feet of the bottom, the carriage became sta
tionary and the rope began to slacken Before
the engineer could take up the slack the car
riage suddenly descended with great force.
throwing four of the men off. who fell to the
bottom of the pit. James John and Hugh
Monaghan were horribly mangled and instantly
picked up fatally injured The legs and arms
of each were broken in several places and they
were badly crushed The six others were
seriously injured and badly shaken up, but
their injuries are not considered fatal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
IVES In CHICAGO.
He Says He Is Fully Prepared to Meet Any
thing in the Line of Criminal Prosecution.

CHICAGO. Dec. 10.-Henry S. Ives made a
somewhat mysterious visit to Chicago, yester
day, registering at hotel as Henry Ironton.n
and his attorney, barrister Boone, registering
as III. s. Booming Mr.. Ives used the great
est discretion in his attempt to prevent his
presence being known, but finally admitted
that the United States Court at indianapolis
Keen. of the Terre Haute & indianapolis Rail
road Company, from disposing of the stock of
that company which was held as collateral to
secure the payment of a note of 1868, 900 given
by him. 1t was alleged that the note he had
given was signed by him as trustee, and Mr..
transaction, and therefore signed in his official
capacity. He did not think there would be any
individual trouble accruing to himself. but he
sorry to learn that McKeen had got himself
into any difficulty on his account He hoped to
litigation, and if that was granted he would
make everything straight. He denied that he
had stripped the treasury of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company of its
available cash, last June, but asserted that he
had paid to the treasurer of the company over
5000 600 to meet claims against him. He claimed
that the directors should see that he was kept
harmless against any suits that might be
brought against him. He not afraid of any
criminal prosecution, and defied any one to
affix any culpable or financial responsibility to
him account of his connection with the Gin
cnnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad He said
he was perfectly prepared to meet all his
cusers, but he might want little more time in
order to collect his facts, summon his witnesses
and properly arrange his defense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
Imposition Upon workingmen.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10.-The Globe Democrat to-day
prints an article the effect that thousands of Ia
boring men sent from ST. Louis to points in the
South and Southwest by the various labor bureaus
employment agencies. to and that paper cites
two places elena Ark and Carter county, Missouri,
where contractors have forces at work, to which
places the with promises of plenty of work
and good nay. Men who have been able to get back
say that there is enough work for oneha of the
and that most of the men in starving CON
dition, many of them being compelled to sell their
clothing buy food The contractors take advantage
of this misery to reduce wages Inquiry at the agen-
c1es show many laborers being sent to these
points daily notwithstanding the that there
work The agents say that they have orders for the
men and obeying instructions. The Globe Demo
the agents and contractors of being in
cDli
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
Carter Harrison's Bath In Japan.


Then of the girls tells the bath is ready.
We undress and put robe. A girl shows Us
to the bath room. 1t is down stairs, and has
only an open Japanese serene to shut off the gaze
of the habitues of the house. The tub is a
round vat about four feet deep. You put your
foot in to try the temperature. The foot at
nearly shrek The girl laughs and empties a
pail of cold water in. You then wait for her
to go out. She does not bulge You can't, to save
you, think of japanese enough to tell her TO git
Finally, by lot of awkward signs you get her
beyond the screen. But not an inch further.
There she stands and waits, as innocently as did
good old Eve when Adam poured into her will
ing ears his first declaration of undying affec-
ton
There are things that try mems souls and call
for heroic courage. One scale the brlstllng
wall can march into the mouth of hot throated
cannon can mount the scaffold with the shining
ak glistening in the sun, tell the girl he
loves how he would win and wed her, can
make a maiden speech in the House of Represen
tativeS. But these are easy tasks compared to
that of getting into a hot bath with a pretty
Japanese girl looking at you through rattan
screen-looking at you, too, with as much sang
froid as if she seeing three months old
baby stripped of its little flannel shirt
Finally patience gives out, you drop your robe
and jump in. Good heavens, the pail of cold
water did cool the thing but the furnace is still
adding caloric. You feel much as did the poor
Japanese martyrs when few hundred years
ago, the heather witches boiled them in grease.
You forget the girl and everything else and
jump out thoroughly clothed; l. e., clothed in
scarlet skin. Ah these are things which try
mems sOIIlS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11

ference by occasional attendance at its sessions.
to special guests every evening.
than the Rev. Sam W. Small, who is domiciled
here, with his charming family, in a handsome
and fnely-furnished residence, and the great
contrast in whose life within the last two years
was forciby emphasized by the presence at his
table one day of Judge Stewart, OF Atlanta,
now a Congressman, who, as Small himself re-
minded his guests. had repeatedly had occasion,
when Judge of the Superior Court in the city
above named, to order Small, who was court re-
porter at the time. to show cause before him
why he should net be committed for contempt
in consequence of being intoxicated to at
tend to his duties. A man this Sam Small,
both intellectually and socially, and to his
conversion, Of the miracles of the nine
teenth century.
There is something funny in the most sedate
of assemblies, and preachers, it is we'll known,
fond of good laugh, almost of the
proven bal yellow legs What furnished peren-
NAL comedy for the body the ever-recurr-
time. Few quit enough to escape this
tantalizng reminder, and some Kept on in spite
of it until the audiences fairly roared. Charity
mpels the thought that some were deaf at
least in one ear. but when the bell proved utter
iy hopeless the coat tails were resorted to.
Another important point for us to consider
is" said long winded speaker, and tap
went DR.. Strongs gentle reminder. which re-
minds of the important point that the time
has come to close this letter. H. T.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
Obituary.

SHELBYvII LIE. Ind, Dec. lO.-Mrs. Maria Wray,
the venerable mother of Col Isom Wray, died at the
residence of her this morning, at the ripe old age
of eighty eight years. S he born in Bourbon
county, kentucky and to Shelbyville in 1925,
three years after the laid and when only
twelve houses Qog huts) were standing. Her father
served with General Putnam in the revolutionary
and took part in the battles of Bunker Hill and
White Plains. The funeral will take place on Mon
day, the Rev. J. K. Pye, of Seymour, officiating.
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. 10-Hon. Ben Rush Plum
y of the early aboitionsts of the North died at
his home in this city yesterday, aged a. In his
younger DAYS the deceased sociate of William
Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips and Lucretia Mott,
and took prominent part in the first agitation
against slavery. He native of Philadelphia and
descended from of the old Quaker families.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 1O.-Nrs Phelan mother
of the late Mother Angela, died at St Marys. Notre
Dame, to-day. She aunt of James g. Blaine.
The funeral will take place Monday morning.
VIENNA Dec. 1O.-Dr. Won LANCER, the eminent
scientist. is dead. The violnist, Miska Hauser who
was well known America, is dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
FARM PRODUCTS.
Average Value of Wheat, Corn, Oats, Bar
ley, Buckwheat and Hay.


Average Value of Wheat. Corn. Oats. Bar
ley, Buckwheat and Hay.
WAsHISGToN, Dec 10.-The December sta
tisticai report of the Departments of Agriculture
relates mainly to farm prices of agricultural
products. The average value of corn Is As 8
cents per bushel against 36. last year. and
BEE in 1885. In 1881 it 63S. whom
the estimated product was ], 194, $4,000
bushels The difference is largely
due TO general depression OF
values. The prices respectively, in 1881 and
1887, are 81 aud AZ In Ohio. go and IS in Indi-
ana. SO and IL In Illinois. 1t and "a in Iowa, 60
and 81 in Missouri. IS and 81 in Kansas, and 80
and 30 in Nebraska. Prices in the Gulf States
average lower than last year. resulting from q
nearly full home supply. In the Atlantic States
prices of home-g grown corn are only slightly ad-
vanced.
The average value of wheat is SO cents, only
mills higher than the average last year. Ii Is
81 in New York, 81 In Pennsylvania, a In
Michigan. 70 in Ohio, % in Indiana, 90 In
Illinois. O. in Wisconsin. GO in Missouri, 81 In
Iowa and Kansas. 50 in Minnesota, % IN
Nebraska and 81 in Dakota
The average for oats Is 307c, against % 8 o
last year. Barley averages So &c, instead of 53c
last year Buckwheat. Sole, 17c higher
than last year. The cereal averages FOR the en-
tire country differ very slightly from those OF
last year. except to corn. The value of hay
is much increased It averages So "a per ten
against 81. 30 last year. The advance has been
IN the drought area of the West
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
SKILLFUL ROBBERS WORK.
He Breaks Open the Car Manufacturing Com
pany's Safe, but Gets Little Money.

The private Waterman of the Indianapolis Car
Manufacturing Company yards, near the Hadley.
avenue crossing Of the Belt railroad, left the
companys Office at Gas o'clock last evening to
COON his beat around the property. Returning
in a half hour he found that the vault in tbs
Office had been opened. the drawers broken and
papers, tickets and envelopes they contained
scattered over the floor. Muddy foot prints
were left upon the carpet, and following them
to th cir starting point. he discovered that Q
large pane of glass in a window of the rear room
had been broken. Through this the safe.
breaker got into the Office. the vault doors
were fastened by an iron bar and large car lock.
1t was only the work Of minuts
heavy king bolt which he had picked up In the
yard. He ransacked the drawers in a hurry. as
a pay envelope containing SO Tor one OF the
employees had been overlooked The men
were paid off about q week ago, but as Is usual
it is supposed there were still several of these
envelopes with money in them waiting the call
of workip gmen who were not anxious about their
wages. But at time is q large amount OF
money kept in the vault. The cash there hardly
ever exceeds $50, aside from the pay envelopes
mentioned No one but the paymaster knew
the exact amount in the vault last night, which !
Colonel Millarc thinks could not have been more
than 5000
The footprints show that the sate-breaker
was a small man. A few days ago man who
would answer this description as to size, came to
the St. Denis Hotel near the stockyards and
about two squares from the car-works- Iester-
day he left, taking with him suit OF clothes
belonging TO the landlord and another out OF
boarders' room. He left in thsir place
his coat in the pockets of which was found
letter signed by Charles Bresner, OF St Louis,
recommending one Joseph Wieeand as trust
worthy man and comuetent molder IL IS pos
sible this fellow robbed the vault, but there Ia
another theory which attributes the crime to
some half-grown boys who are under suspicion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11

which soon becomes almost uncomfortable. Tor
tured by apprehension and by uncertainty as TO
her own fate and the fate of those dear to her.
she can only pace her cell from corner to corner
until she is exhausted. and then throw herself on
the narrow prison bed and in sleep try to lose
consciousness of her misery.
spirit is supposed to be sufficiently broken by
solitary confinement and grief, she is summoned
to the dopros, a preliminary examination. with
out witnesses counsel conducted oy Uenerai
Strelnikoff in person. He begins by saying that
she is charged with very serious crimes under
such and such sections of the penal CODE, and
that she stands in danger of exile 10 Siberia Tor
a long term of years. In view. however; OF ner
youth and inexperienced and OF the prooaDlIlty
that she has been misled by criminal associates
he feels authorized to say to her that IL she Will
show repentance and sincere desire to reform.
by making Observation-Disclosures hearted
confession'-and will answer truthfully all ques-
tons put to her, she will be immediately re-
leased If, the contrary, she manifests an
obdurate disposition, and thus proves herself to
be unworthy of clemency, it will become his
duty, as prosecuting officer of the crown, to
treat her with all the rigor of the law"
The poor girl is well aware that the reference
to Siberian exile is not an empty threat Be-
longing as she does to an Enthusiastically fam
lily. she has often heard discussed the case of
Marie PriSedski, who was eXlied before she was
sixteen years of age because she would not be-
tray her older sister, and the case of the witch
evitch children one seventeen and the other
fourteen years of age, who were arrested IN
Kiev and sent to Siberia in 1879 for no particu-
lar reason except that their two older prothers
were revolutionistS and had been shot dead
while resisting arrest
1t is not a matter for surprise if young girl
who has thus been torn from her home, who is
depressed and disheartened by solitary confne-
ment, who is without counsel. without know
ledge of the law, without the support of single
friend in this supreme crisis of her life. breaks
down at last under the strain of deadly fear.
and tells the inquisitor all she knows. She is at
once released, but only to suffer agonies of self
reproach and remorse as she sees her relatives
and dearest friends arrested imprisoned, and
which she herself has furnished 1t frequently
happens however, that girl remains steadfast
and refuses to answer questions even after
months of solitary confinement. The authori-
ties then resort to other and even more discred-
i+ahla hn1S
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11


SETTLE DOWN so near the White House for the
remainer of his life. 1t is the custom among
members OF Congress. after their terms expire,
to locate ct the capital, open q law
Office or claim agency and proceed to bust
ness hut it is not customary among men who
nave been elected to the highest Office in the
eff of the people TO take any such steps, and as
Mr.. Cleveland will undoubtedly be compelled to
earn his living in some manner after the presi-
dental term expires, it is hardly thought posi-
hie that he can contemplate making Washington
his permanent home. Then, too, it would hard
Nv do in the next campaign, to head the ticket
with Grover Cleveland, Of the District of Column
bia as there is a feeling prevalent among people
generally that a citizenship of the District of
Columbia amounts TO very little politically, and
it is hardly likely that a candidate hailing from
much support. even among his own party. as one
who claimed . residence in one of the States
This is doubtless the animus of the articles
which are now being published by Mr.. Cleve-
still resident of the city OF Buffalo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
The Goose Bird.

Johnny's Composition in San Francisco Examiner
Gooses are the biggest birds knone to the
human eve, and the he is gander. The
eander is the monark of the air. but the rooster
lick him, the rooster he is brave like Gen.
Solomon, but the gander isn't Eighty, more like
preachers The goose is a sailer. but not q
wicked one like Jack Brily, wich chews tobacko
and swears, and evry thing and it has got lethers
between its toes for to wolk the VOTER HEX q
thing of life. Ducks they sailers too, but
the swon has got long neck like graft, aud
wen it has got sore throte it is mighty sick
The little gooses is goslums and is green My
sister, she see a gosum, and she ass Uncle Ned
wot made 1t green and he said, Uncle Ned did.
that it was cos il wasent ripe. Then Billy, he
spoke up and said wen it was ripe 1t would BE-
mir al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
SENATE COMMITTEES.
Changes in the Charm anships as Arranged
by the Republican Caucus.


by the Republican Caucus.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-The following are
the principal changes in chairmanships of the
Senate committees:
Palmer, agriculture and forestry; Hale,
census; Chase, civil service and retrenchment;
Frey. commerce; Quay, expenses of the several
branches of the civil service; Farwell, expendi-
lures of public money; Stock BRIDGE fisheries;
Paddock, Improvement of the Mississippi river;
Hawley. military affairs; Stewart, mines and
mining; Teller, patents; Mitchell transportation
routes TO the seaboard Wilson, of Iowa, re-
vision of the laws; Aldrich. rules; Plat, Terri
SORES; Stanford. public buildings and grounds;
Sabiu. railroads; Hscock. centennial of the Con-
stitution and the discovery of America; Chand-
Ter, Indian traders; Davis, pensions; Sawyer,
postoffices and post-roads.
The following are the changes In the princi-
pal committees:
Farwell takes Mahones place on appropria-
lions; Sawyer, Cullom and Palmer fill the
cancies on the gubcommerce committee made
by the retirement of Mcmillan, Miller and
Concer Rlddleberger and Farwell take places
on the District of Columbia committee, vice
Palmer and Cheney; Hiscock takes Miiler's
place the finance committee; Dolph takes
! Harrisou's place on the committee foreign
relations; Piatt and Stockbridee are substituted
for Ingalls, and Harrison the committee
Indian affairs; the judiciary committee is
duced in numbers from ten TO nine by the -e-
firenent of Mcmillan, whose place ID not filed;
Stewart and DAVIS take the PLACES of Sewell and
Harrison on the committee on military affairs;
Chandler takes Dawes's place on the COMMITTEES
on naval 8Halrs: Bowed. Mitchell ana quay lake
the places of Conger. Wilson and Malone
the committee postofices and post-roads; Pad
dock takes VanWyck's place on the committee
public lands; Frye retires from the committee
rules, giving place to Aldrich; Stewart and
Davis take places the committee Ter
ritores, to fill vacancies made by the retirement
OF Harrison and Conger and the promotion Of
Piats TO a chairpanship; the select committee
interstate commerce is made standing commit
tee, with nine members, of which Cullom is
chairman. The Democrats receive eight minor
chsirnanships, being increase Of one over
the last Congress The list has been handed to
Mr.. Beck, chairman of the Democratic caucus,
no has called Democratic caucus for Monday
morning at 10 o'clock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
A Multitude of Heirs.

Special to the Indiacapolis JOURNAL
Upton, Ind. Dec. 1O.-Since the Journal took
the pains to investigate the Buchanan estate and
give the important facts relative to the matter new
heirs being discovered all over the State. The
OBanions at this place have received less than
twenty-five letters from parties who read the state
ment and inquiring after the matter. Yesterday
old gentleman living in Hamilton county called
on /. NJ. O'Banion, armed with Indianapolis
Journal of Mondays issue. and said his
Buchanan and that he would come in for a share of
the wealth Letters received to-day from S. P.
Morgan, attorney of Grsencastle, KY, who is
in New York looking after the matter, state that
commissioners will soon be appointed before whom
the heirs can go and prove their heirshp and that
arrangements being made for the appointment of
receiver for the lands. He also blanks for the
heirs at this place to fill out.